Examples of volcano deities from different cultures (from top): Pele, Chantico, Konohanasakuya-hime and Hephaestus.

A volcano deity is a deification of a volcano. Volcano deities are often associated with fire, and are often represented as fire deities as well. The following is a list of volcano deities:

Africa, Near East and Spain

• Yahweh, in pre-Judaic Hebrew religion. Some scholars (for example, Martin Noth in his Exodus: A Commentary^[1] and Jack Miles in his Pulitzer Prize-winning God: A Biography^[2]) suggest that the ancient Hebrews worshipped or associated their god with a volcano.

Santeria religion

• Aganju, in Cuba, is a volcano deity for the practitioners of the Lucumi.

Guanche mythology

• Guayota, Guanche, malignant deity which lived inside the Teide volcano.

Asia and Europe

Indigenous Philippine folk religions

• Lalahon, in Philippine mythology, Goddess of fire, volcanoes and harvest.^[3]
• Kan-Laon, Visayan god of time associated with the volcano Kanlaon.
• Gugurang, Bicolano god of fire and volcanoes who lives inside Mayon Volcano which erupts whenever he's enraged.

Greco-Roman world

• Vulcan, in ancient Roman religion and myth, the god of fire^[4] including the fire of volcanoes, deserts, metalworking, and the forge.^[5]
• Hephaestus, Greek god of blacksmiths, metalworking, carpenters, craftsmen, artisans, sculptors, metallurgy, fire, and volcanoes.^[6]

Americas

Aztec religion

• Chantico, goddess of the hearth fires and volcanoes.
• Xiuhtecuhtli, god of fire, day, heat, volcanoes, food in famine, the year, turquoise, the Aztec emperors, and the afterlife.

Polynesia and Pacific

Māori mythology

• Rūaumoko, in Māori mythology, god of earthquakes, volcanoes and seasons.^[7][8]

Hawaiian religion

• Pele, in the Hawaiian religion, goddess of volcanoes and fire and the creator of the Hawaiian Islands.